By Brent Patterson, CPA, Semmes Murphy, Survey Committee Chair

The Survey Committee is happy to announce that both the 2025 NERVES Socio-Economic Survey and 2025 SNIS Socio-Economic Survey (hosted by NERVES) opened and questionnaires were released for submission on Tuesday, July 15th. We will again be offering $1,000 to two lucky participants who submit to the NERVES survey by the August 31st deadline.

The Committee explored a web-hosted submission and reporting platform for the NERVES Survey that we hoped to launch in 2025. However, the Committee discovered in the beginning of the implementation phase that the functionality that was available when we started our due diligence that would’ve allowed us to capture and report on important data points like sub-specialty neurosurgery data was being sunset and would not be available to us for 2025 and beyond. Without sufficient time to pivot to an alternate solution, the Committee decided to maintain our current format for one more year to allow ample time to explore solutions that would be an upgrade in terms of functionality but also allow NERVES to continue to develop a survey that meets the needs of NERVES and the neurosurgery community.

We look forward to rolling out a web-hosted platform for the 2026 NERVES Socio-Economic Survey.